From another World, meeting you

The End

2 years later.

Elijah POV:

I was looking for my wife, it still sounded unreal to me, but Ella had surprised me in many ways, her gift had not developed by leaps and bounds and after more than a year she had gained enough confidence in me to tell me why she thought she was not the right one for me.

The fact that she was asexual did not mean to me that she was not the right one for me, I had fallen in love with the young woman and the feelings for my now wife had only become stronger. I found them on the balcony offering the view of the canals (Grachten) as she kept correcting me and laughing at me because of my accent when I tried to speak Dutch.

When I closed my arms around her, she leaned against me, a reaction that almost a year and a half ago she would not have reacted like this.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked me, I didn't know how Ella made it, but she seemed to be able to read me like a book, something I attributed to the volume that connected us as companions.

"To my wife and how important she is to me," I answered her honestly and placed feather-light kisses on her shoulder and neck, two places where she was ticklish.

My tactics were successful, Ella turned around and looked at me, her face was framed with her dark blonde curls, freckles stood out on her nose and cheeks and a slight smile played around her lips, no one could see at first glance what had happened to her, how much pain she had suffered and yet she saw the good in me.

I never thought I could feel so much love for anyone, but then Ella had entered my life.

I had sworn to her in our marriage vows to be her rock in the surf, to be her family and never to let her go again.

That Ella didn't want this, she had told me later, after asking me to give her time to work with me to find out how far she wanted to be intimate.

That was a request that I would never have refused her and even if we were not like other couples, at first glance we were.

A normal heterosexual couple, although Ella was not heterosexual and it was still difficult for her to accept that on some days. But there would always be days when it was harder, in a world where sex was so ubiquitous and if you didn't think it was important, you weren't normal. But my wife was the most normal woman in the world and the only important one for me.

No matter what challenges awaited us, we would all overcome them.